New Manga Shout Out: 9/3/12 - 9/9/12

Welcome to the next New Manga Shout Out. With the no-raws/scans rule on MH, you have to work a bit to find these mangas. This week features high school assassins, people who disappear from Japan, and the wild, wild, west. Remember, if you like any of the series, favorite them. Don't forget to also thank the various people who feed your manga addiction. ^_^ Translators and Scanlators, please check out these series and see if you can spread some more manga love~

We're still looking for people who know Japanese and want to help write summaries for our manga database and for the shout out. Please PM me if you want to help out. Now onto the series~

Billionaire Tono Ryuichi, the President of Tono Foods Group, a giant food company, recently acquired two young female assassins from the Mexican cartel. Sui and Ai came from unimaginably poor childhoods and was given a choice between killing people or selling their body. They chose the former and went through an inconceivably extreme training and, at 17 years old, they have become one of the deadliest assassins in the world. They are absolutely obedient to their master and they are given the task of finding the killer that poisoned Ryuichi’s wife and child. They begin attending high school to blend into society and, at the same time, read and study which helps them become even more deadlier on the field. Sui and Ai encounter Matoba Imari who is a high school assassin herself and may be more skilled than both of them. But unlike the two, Imari just wants to lead a normal life. Whatever Imari wishes for her life is not their problem because the only thing Sui and Ai feeds on are bloodthirst and a challenge.

This is a suspense adventure story, based on the game of the same name. It takes place in the near future, after a nuclear explosion. Takatsuki Togo is a high school student at the isolated Dunamis base. He and his friends pass the days building ordinary high school memories together. One by one, they graduate, and are sent to Japan, usually never to be heard from again. One day, a mysterious transfer student arrives from Japan, Setsu Chihaya. After her arrival, strange things begin happening at Dunamis Base. Will Togo and his friends be able to find out the truth behind what is happening to their peaceful life?

Funjyaka is a happy little angel up in heaven, who loves playing her cornet. One day, she carelessly drops her cornet, and it falls down to the human world! God tosses her down to the human world as well, telling her not to come back until she's found her cornet, the most important tool of an angel.

The human world is bewildering, but it is full of future friends for Funjyaka. Her first friend is Yuta, a boy who generously takes her home with him. His family actually runs a takoyaki shop, which happens to be Funjyaka's favorite food! With the help of Yuta, and of her fairy helper Pixie, who has followed her from heaven, Funjyaka will search for her cornet. She's going to meet all sorts of human and supernatural people along the way! Funjyaka may not have her angelic powers without her cornet, but she'll do her best to spread happiness to the people around her!

The sequel to Funjyakajan. The little angel Funjyaka is still living in the human world with her friend Yuta. She still has her helpful fairy, Pixie, to help guide her. Funjyaka has found her magic cornet, so now she has access to her angelic powers. However, she's still learning to be a great angel, and Pixie has to help her not to make terrible mistakes! At the end of the decade, one angel will be chosen to sit the Jade Throne. Will that one angel be Funjyaka?

After being laid off from his white collar job, thirty something year old Tsuruoka Itto puts his focus on something else besides a job. Now working as a janitor at Aozora High School, his goal is to meet and marry a high school girl. He becomes close to Asahimura Sayaka, a hot student who has a strong sense of right and wrong but who's a little clumsy at times. Around that same time, he becomes close to other girls like Hagura Yuna, Sayaka’s best friend who is calm, quiet and often mysterious, and Yunohama Yui, a young female teacher who seems to be always on Itto’s case. While working on campus, he is bitten by a legendary pink frog and Itto gains abilities like being able to stick on walls and jumping long distances. He learns that if he doesn’t sleep with a virgin soon, not only will he be unable to return to his normal self, he will eventually die.

After both his parents died, Yoji was in a daze for a couple months, just drifting through the days until his grandma finally snapped him out of it. He started to take his art school more seriously and began helping his grandma manage an apartment complex. A new tenant moves in at the beginning of the school year. Ichimura Minato is a year above Yoji in the same art school and they become close due to them always being near each other at home and school. They start a complicated relationship with both sides unsure of what they want from each other whether it be just physical, just a friendship or something more.

The wild west of the United States in the late 1800s was a dangerous, near-lawless place. It was an era where force defined the rules, and men were known for the speed and accuracy of their gun arms. After aiding an impressive arrest in Ellsworth, Kansas, gunman Wyatt Earp is recruited to help defend justice in Dodge City, Kansas alongside Bat Masterson. On the way to Dodge City, Wyatt meets a lovely young singer, Dora, who seems to be in danger. Will Wyatt be up to the difficult task of defending the law in Dodge City?

The mafia boss of the Iwashi family is a high school girl named Konomi Minoko. But don’t let her appearance fool you; she has done and seen things normal citizens can’t even imagine. Under her control are two assassins who have gained legendary status for their deadliness and ability to get any job done. Ishikawa Rushia, codenamed Baret, uses a modified handgun that uses a custom made hollow point bullet that explodes the target from the inside. Shirato Marin, codenamed Francesca, uses a original weapon that is a mix between a throwing axe and battle axe. Both of them are Minoko’s high school classmates and seem like normal teenagers but are two of the most feared killers in the mob world who handle missions often involving other assassins and underground groups.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:

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Only one that really caught my interest this week was thee Wyatt Earp story. There was something cool about seeing a Japanese take on the wild west, and the story was very exciting.Here's what vyc had to say:

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Hop Step Jump - rom-com with fairly interesting/original plot. One middle aged man's quest to get laid by high school girls. Little weird when you stop and think about it but the comedy keeps it lighthearted and easy to read

Trash - the drawing style makes you believe the series wont be very graphic but lots of chopped body parts and blood/gore. Sort of refreshing in a weird sense. Had a lot of fun reading it.

Destro - An assassin series with lots of blood and people dying as you would expect. Nothing special but kept me interested long enough.

My opinion: Destro 246 piqued my interest. I'm curious as to how they'll solve the mystery of who poisoned his wife and daughter. Dunamis 15 sounds like another interesting mystery story from 5pb. If you liked Sundome, Hop Step Jump! should be up your alley since it's from the same mangaka.